One of the most important “commandments” in Strunk and White’s “Elements of Style,” first published in 1920, is: “omit needless words.”
Is anyone perfect at this? Probably not. Then again, we come across true prize-winners constantly, as exemplified at left.
Where does the brutality and lawless of ICE rank among the criminal insanities of the Trump administration? That’s a hard question to answer in a time that features the execution of people off the Venezuelan coast who may be smuggling drugs, and the prosecution of the president’s political enemies.
It’s true that Trump has destroyed the nation’s reputation. The question is how and if this can be reversed when the United States elects a sane human being to the White House.
Some say that the damage is irreparable. I doubt that.
The sign at left is an excellent example of what life in the United States would be like if we didn’t have a constitution, and hateful morons made our laws.
American actress Amanda Seyfried says she will not apologize for her past comment calling Charlie Kirk “hateful.”
When you and I were young, if someone said that Canada was south of the United States, or that vast numbers of penguins inhabited our Great Plains, they wouldn’t have been taken too seriously. Now, truth has ceased to matter and BS-artists like this are quite common.
As anyone who can read is aware, China is eating our lunch with respect to wind and solar.
It’s funny. My gardener, Gonzalo, says the precise same thing.
I’m glad he’s happy, but that doesn’t make investment in gold a good idea.
Speaking strictly for myself, I will be saddened if Trump is removed from office because he falls asleep at important meetings, or due to any other physical or mental failing associated with aging. The majority of Americans and virtually the entirety of the rest of the developed world believe, correctly, that Trump is among the vilest human beings who’s ever walked the Earth, and it will be a tragedy if this planet isn’t permitted to see some form of resolution here in terms of justice and reason.
Yes, the people of the United States re-elected a convicted felon, a rapist, and an unabashed conman. This has torn our country, and a great deal of the rest of the world, to shreds. We deeply regret this.
Let’s hope that we get the opportunity to do the right thing, i.e., to expel Trump not for getting old, but for being the man who, quite deliberately, nearly brought this entire planet to its knees.
What this guy said has probably always been true, but the age of Trump has brought it into crystal clarity.
Human society has always had its intellectuals, but for every one of them, there have been thousands of people who had no aspiration for learning any more than was absolutely required to grow corn or unclog toilets.
Have the intellectuals or progressives of the day ever been admired, or elected as leaders?
This may not have been a huge deal in the days of the ancient Greeks, but now, of course, it’s turned into a river of s***. We love our Hitlers, Mussolinis, Obans, Putins, and Trumps.
We live among idiots. There’s little more to be said.
